> Totally agreed on the over-complexity and un-securability of TLS, that too often is deployed where something simpler should be used instead.

What would something simpler, less error-prone which would give the same benefits in a client-server connection?

EDIT: Spiped is one, I got it (I'm on it right now and might even use it actually on a side-project), anything else that we should know about? :-)